Stepan Balmashev

Stepan Valerianovoch Balmashev (3 April 1881-3 May 1902) was an SR Combat Organization assassin who murdered Minister of the Interior Dmitry Sipyagin.

Biography
Stepan Valerianovich Balmashev was born in Arkhangelsk, Russian Empire on 3 April 1881, and he entered the University of Kiev in 1900. In January 1901, he led a student strike against the government of Czar Nicholas II of Russia's rule, and he was imprisoned by the Imperial Russian Army in Roslavl. Balmashev later joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and he was sent to assassinate Minister of the Interior Dmitry Sipyagin at Mariinsky Palace. He disguised himself as an employee at the palace, and he claimed that he was delivering documents to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia. However, he shot Sipyagin several times in the back, and Balmashev was arrested and executed at Shlisselburg in May 1902.